“…Several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have so far identified 16 susceptibility loci (P 5.00 3 10 -8 ) worldwide that are associated with lung cancer risk [Wang et al, 2008;Hu et al, 2011;Dong et al, 2012] and four loci out of them showed evidences of association of lung cancer risk in smokers [Dong et al, 2012]. However, most of these reports were based on Caucasian and Chinese populations, and many identified risk alleles have not been adequately evaluated in Indian population in spite of several case-control investigations on the Indian population from different geographical zones [Sobti et al, 2003[Sobti et al, , 2004[Sobti et al, , 2008[Sobti et al, , 2009Sreeja et al, 2005Sreeja et al, , 2008aSreeja et al, , 2008bSreeja et al, , 2008cJain et al, 2005;Pachouri et al, 2006Pachouri et al, , 2007Kotnis et al, 2008;Shah et al, 2008;Singh et al, 2010Singh et al, , 2016Tilak et al, 2011Tilak et al, , 2013Ihsan et al, 2011a,;Kant Shukla et al, 2013;Natukula et al, 2013;Shukla et al, 2013;Bag et al, 2014;Phukan et al, 2014;Saikia et al, 2014;Uppal et al, 2014;Sharma et al, 2015;Kumari et al, 2016;Peddireddy et al, 2016]. To date, researchers have not been able to delineate the overall effect of the genes and the genetic variations on lung cancer susceptibility in the populations of Indian origin, due to certain conflicting results.…”